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Anyone know which companies make wireless network cards with native Linux support? Or I guess another way of asking ~ which companies are friendly enough towards Linux to tell you how to configure their cards under Linux?

 

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Craig

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Frankly, with ndiswrapper, the question is a little unimportant. But, not very many venders actually support linux. A few of the ones who do do not have adequet tech support to answer any questions, even simple ones. So, here and other linux places offer the best support.

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Maybe you could look at the hardware databases of the linux-distributors

 

for mandriva it's here:

 

http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/hardware/

 

The problem is that even if the manufacturer does support linux in some way, not every product is supported, 3Com has wifi-cards that are supported under linux, there is even a driver out there for them, but not all of their cards are supported, important is, which chipset the card uses, the manufacturer itself is not so relevant

 

best thing is a card with a chipset that is supported directly in linux, without such things like ndiswrapper, while you might get some cards to work with it, it's not always granted, therefore the question is not so unimportant as it might seem

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If you get an Atheros chipset based card, ndiswrapper is your only choice, since madwifi is beta, and doesn't seem to work correctly.

 

The newer madwifi-ng driver seems to work correctly for quite a lot of people out there.

 

All of intels wireless cards have drivers, however i'm not sure whether you can get one in pci/pcmcia form.

 

orinoco and prism54 based cards are good,

 

iphitus

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If you get an Atheros chipset based card, ndiswrapper is your only choice, since madwifi is beta, and doesn't seem to work correctly.

 

The newer madwifi-ng driver seems to work correctly for quite a lot of people out there.

 

All of intels wireless cards have drivers, however i'm not sure whether you can get one in pci/pcmcia form.

 

orinoco and prism54 based cards are good,

 

iphitus

 

Cisco Aironet 350 802.11b card is well supported by most Linux distros, although the card does not support WPA encryption. It has worked with most Linux distrow's I tried it with. The Orinoco Gold Classic card ( not the one sold by Prism) also has good Linux support. An Atheros based card that has worked with several distros is the NetGear WG511T card. It also supports WPA encryption.

 

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